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> You can't fire Claude if it fucks up What's the difference between "firing" Claude vs moving to a model from a different provider? The latter seems very analogous to firing an em…

TIL you can get RSS feeds for YouTube channels. Thanks for this!

> Selfishly, I don't want my screen scraped because it feels like an invasion of my privacy, [...] But zooming out, I don't want to live in a world where humans—employees or otherw…

I do not envy the position the npm team are in. They removed the ability to unpublish packages as a response to the left-pad incident[1] because it wasn't desirable for individual …

A browser is OOM more expensive to run than a terminal app, regardless of what you're running inside said browser

Purchasing power is probably a better metric in a vacuum, but it's hard to analyze accurately For example, the comment you're citing is claiming that because minimum wage has incre…

> the MCP server is automatically launched when the Agent loads that skill The main problem with this approach at the moment is it busts your prompt cache, because LLMs expect all …

Comments are often the best tool for explaining why a bit of code is formulated how it is, or explaining why a more obvious alternate implementation is a dead end. An example of th…

I’ve especially noticed this with gpt-4o-mini [1], and it’s a big problem. My particular use case involves keeping a running summary of a conversation between a user and the LLM, a…

I wanted to document a particular genAI antipattern which I've seen a few times now. LLMs are theoretically pretty fungible, because you send English and get English back--but in p…

Even with this setup in place you need a heightened level of caution relative to a monolith. In a monolith I can refactor function signatures however I desire because the whole ser…

Not sure what the situation is like now, but we stopped using LangChain last year because the rate of change in the library was huge. Whenever we needed to upgrade for a new featur…

The other possibility (which is common in startups) is that often the “right way” is different depending on the scale of the system you need to design for. In cases like this you e…

Big fan of this. Here in New Zealand we have a slogan “be a tidy kiwi” that encourages people to pick up their litter and be good stewards of for our natural environment Imo the sa…

This already exists (in a slightly different prompt format); it's the underlying idea behind ReAct: https://react-lm.github.io As you say, I'm skeptical this counts as AGI. Althoug…

This sounds like an argument against TypeScript in general, no? e.g. If I am parsing a string to a number via Number.parseInt, I don’t need a “: number” annotation because I can ju…

Happens a lot with junction tables ime. e.g. At my last job we had three tables: user, stream, user_stream. user_stream is an N:N junction between a user and a stream A user is fre…

Type-prefixed IDs are the way to go. For completeness it's worth noting that the first example using the `string | 'currentNode'` type can be slightly improved in cases where you _…

There’s a French think tank called “The Shift Project” which actually produced a report estimating CO2 impact of data transfer a few years ago [1]! The numbers are obviously very r…

The problem is that you don’t really know if your mock accurately implements the behavior of the database. The only way you could verify the mock behaves correctly would be to run …

Yeah, the folks working on aider (AI pair programming) [1] found that these kind of tricks reduced performance for them. I’m pretty confident there will be situations where you can…

Yeah +1 We originally started out building features with LangChain (loading chains from YAML sounded good—it felt like it would be easy to get non-engineers to help with prompt dev…